The wretched poor of Paris
“There are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”
Culture
Ecosocialism: the elephant in the DSA room?
, it attempts to go beyond analysis of what has been achieved, to pointing out how to build a really broad and radical movement that will go much further in the near future – with the clear aim of achieving permanent non-reformist change.
Cometh the [midnight] hour, cometh the book!
Allan Todd reviews Derek Wall’s 2020 Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis published by Merlin Press. This book had me from its very first page, with [...]
Lost
Twenty-five left organisations are re-framed through film narrative in a reductive reading of them that is, duplicitous publicity for the book points out, ‘merciless’. It is anything but!
Corrupt socialists? Heaven forfend!
For those of us who see politics as fundamentally about ideology and choosing sides in the class struggle, Baron Noir provides a bit of an insight into the minds of our opponents for whom it’s more about personal advantage and deal making.
“Martin Monath: A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers”
World War II was the product of capitalism which is still with us. It is prepared to defend its system of exploitation and oppression at the cost of tens of millions of lives. The opposite course, advocated by the FI and their comrades publishing Arbeiter und Soldat, cannot be dismissed as mere “counterfactual” history.
What I got from “More than a Left Foot” and why you should buy it
I learned so much and must thoroughly recommend this book. It is a book about where our politics come from and the experiences of an activist who gently tells his life story which is backed up with interesting sociology.
More than a Left Foot
There are three chapters that explain clearly and in some detail the theoretical debates about disablement in capitalist society. The three periods in his life are woven together with the red thread of this political theory – he really does relate the political to the personal.
‘Searching for Socialism’ – a review
Tony Richardson reviews “Searching for Socialism, The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn”, by Colin Leys and Leo Panitch
The Living Flame
It is clear as a strong woman inside a largely male leadership of the biggest workers party in the world, she had to be strong. As Le Blanc suggests she perhaps benefited from her outsider status to put her finger on the rampant reformism destroying it as a class struggle force.
